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Coronavirus: 928 New Cases; 90 Deaths Recorded Today

Tuesday, 26 January 2021 09:25

National news updates on Tuesday 26th January.

Latest Figures: 

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 90 additional deaths related to COVID-19.

89* deaths occurred in January.

The median age of those who died is 83 years and the age range is 48-99 years.

There has been a total of 3,066** COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight, Monday 25th January, the HPSC has been notified of 928 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 189,851 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.

Of the cases notified today:

  • 418 are men / 506 are women

  • 50% are under 45 years of age

  • The median age is 44 years old

  • 257 in Dublin, 115 in Cork, 71 in Louth, 53 in Galway, 45 in Limerick and the remaining 387 cases are spread across all other counties***

As of 2pm today, 1,750 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 216 are in ICU. 65 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

Dr Tony Holohan, Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health, said:

“Today we are reporting a further 90 deaths, bringing our cumulative total of lives lost to COVID-19 to more than 3,000 in Ireland. This highly infectious disease is having a severe impact on the most vulnerable in our society and we must continue the good work we are doing to suppress it.

“The decline in daily incidence of COVID-19 has begun, however the volume of disease in our communities remains very high. To date we have reported 96,000 cases in January 2021, which has already passed the total of 93,500 cases reported in 2020. Indeed, public health doctors in the Midlands reported a total of 4,000 cases in the first 8 months of 2020 and another 4,000 cases in the first four weeks of 2021.

“Through our enhanced public health surveillance programme, we have identified 6 additional cases linked to the Southern African variant of concern. All cases are being followed up by public health teams in line with the latest ECDC guidance published on the 21st January.

“The downturn in incidence has been achieved through the determination of people across the country to stay at home, to work from home and to avoid meeting and socialising with others. It is imperative that everyone continues to strictly adhere to the public health advice to protect ourselves and our loved ones from this highly-infectious disease.”

Today’s cases, 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population and new cases in last 14 days (as of midnight 25 January 2021) (incidence rate based on Census 2016 county population)

 

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County

  

Today's cases

(to midnight 25Jan2021)

  

5-Day Moving Average of New Cases~

(to 25Jan2021)

  

14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population

(to 25Jan2021)

  

New Cases during last 14 days

(to 25Jan2021)

  

Ireland

  

928

  

1,591

  

 721.1

  

 34,336

  

Monaghan

  

27

  

50

  

 1,475.9

  

 906

  

Louth

  

71

  

79

  

 1,139.0

  

 1,468

  

Carlow

  

36

  

26

  

 964.3

  

 549

  

Waterford

  

37

  

67

  

 953.7

  

 1,108

  

Mayo

  

31

  

48

  

 841.3

  

 1,098

  

Dublin

  

257

  

521

  

 839.2

  

 11,307

  

Wexford

  

16

  

70

  

 834.2

  

 1,249

  

Limerick

  

45

  

62

  

 781.9

  

 1,524

  

Cavan

  

7

  

21

  

 737.8

  

 562

  

Donegal

  

38

  

39

  

 712.3

  

 1,134

  

Meath

  

39

  

68

  

 700.9

  

 1,367

  

Offaly

  

20

  

32

  

 691.4

  

 539

  

Cork

  

115

  

162

  

 689.9

  

 3,745

  

Kildare

  

24

  

58

  

 631.4

  

 1,405

  

Galway

  

53

  

65

  

 616.1

  

 1,590

  

Laois

  

9

  

17

  

 591.5

  

 501

  

Tipperary

  

19

  

44

  

 559.7

  

 893

  

Clare

  

15

  

25

  

 536.1

  

 637

  

Wicklow

  

16

  

32

  

 464.1

  

 661

  

Kilkenny

  

9

  

18

  

 427.3

  

 424

  

Sligo

  

5

  

17

  

 408.9

  

 268

  

Westmeath

  

11

  

20

  

 397.7

  

 353

  

Longford

  

6

  

12

  

 384.1

  

 157

  

Kerry

  

19

  

25

  

 381.8

  

 564

  

Roscommon

  

<5

  

7

  

 373.4

  

 241

  

Leitrim

  

<5

  

6

  

 268.4